Registration - Consultant

Subject Matters

• Agriculture
• Budget
• Employment and Training
• Immigration

Subject Matter Details

Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit

• -Seeking funding for proposed training and farm innovations for workers and farm employers.

Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation

• COVID-19 Emergency Measures: 1) Emergency funding needed due to massive market changes and enormous costs to farmers 2) Marketing support including Canada Brand needed huge market fluctuations to buy local and buy Canadian first and 3) support for Canadian essential farm workers what they need.

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• -Proposed Agriculture and Agri-Food Workforce Action Plan and Workforce Program, to increase the labour supply and to increase training for the agriculture sector workers and employers.

Policies or Program, Regulation

• -Address agriculture labour issues and shortages with government officials by seeking support for the implementation of Agri-Food Immigration Pilot that will allow immigration access for farm and food workers, also create new incentives to encourage refugees and new immigrants to work on farms and to also address the Temporary Foreign Worker Program application process issues with administrative efficiencies.

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication

The lobbyist has arranged or expects to arrange one or more meetings on behalf of the client between a public office holder and any other person in the course of this undertaking.

Government Institutions

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
• Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• House of Commons
• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Public Safety Canada (PS)
• Senate of Canada

Address:
660 Speedvale Avenue West, Suite #302
Guelph, ON  N1K 1E5
Canada

Telephone number: 519-829-4125

Client representative

Ryan Koeslag, Executive Vice President

Parent Company Information

Canadian Mushroom Growers Association is not a subsidiary of any other parent companies.

Business address:
58 Prince Street
Carleton Place, ON  K7C 2M2
Canada

Telephone number: 613-233-9954
Fax number: 613-784-9426